*SET-U

PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD

ALL DISPUTES ↗
CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 326

DISPUTE
RECORD.

One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.

resolvedestablished

Was Gaulish -rīx borrowed from Latin rēx?

No borrowing is required by the reviewed comparative account. Celtic -rīx and Latin rēx are inherited cognates: Celtic raises Indo-European *ē to *ī, while Latin preserves ē.

WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 326

-rīx

/-rīxs/ · onomastic compound element

An attested Gaulish second member meaning “king” or “prince,” visible in compound personal names such as Dumnorix and Vercingetorix and inherited from Proto-Celtic *rīx-s.

01

DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE

2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE

A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.

SOURCE 02supportsscholarly reference

Old Irish Online: Introduction

Contrasts Celtic ī in Gaulish -rix and Old Irish rí with Latin ē in rēx and rēgis.

Old Irish introduction, example 1a
AUTHOR / EDITOR
Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel and University of Texas Linguistics Research Center Editors
YEAR
Not recorded
PUBLISHER
University of Texas at Austin
AUDIT SOURCE USE ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
02 / EDITORIAL STATE

THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.

CONFIDENCE
established
STATUS
resolved
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
Cambridge derives the Gaulish and Proto-Celtic form from PIE *(h₃)rēg̑-; the Texas Old Irish introduction explicitly compares Celtic ī with Latin ē.
RESOLUTION NOTE

The graph joins the branches at reconstructed ancestry and draws no Latin-to-Gaulish edge.

OPEN THE FULL -RĪX DOSSIER ↗RETURN TO ALL DISPUTES ↗